What to Expect with the Return of Trump - John Mearsheimer, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen
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🗓️ 19 January 2025
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What to Expect with the Return of Trump - John Mearsheimer, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump has packed his bags and is moving back into the White House. |
| 0:04.3 | So assessing his foreign policy, what does he want to achieve and what's possible for him to achieve? |
| 0:11.1 | So to discuss this, I'm very pleased to be joined by Professor John J. Mersheimer and Alexander Merkiris. |
| 0:20.4 | And, well, I thought the main two areas of conflict, obviously, that will require Trump's |
| 0:27.5 | attention is obviously Middle East and Ukraine. |
| 0:31.0 | But I thought before we jump into these conflict areas, I thought we can also address |
| 0:35.8 | America's relationship to its main allies, the Europeans, |
| 0:39.8 | how this might change, because we see now with the new polls just coming out, it seems most |
| 0:45.6 | of the world is actually quite positive about Trump's return to the White House, with one |
| 0:51.3 | exception, which is the Europeans. He seems to be taking a bit harder position against the Europeans. |
| 0:59.0 | Obviously, he's more eager than Biden repairs to shift America's focus away from Europe |
| 1:05.2 | towards Asia. |
| 1:08.4 | But also, he's already, before even taking office, he's already threatened tariffs on Europeans, he demands higher military spending from them. |
| 1:20.1 | And at the same time, also suggesting America might seize Greenland, which is Denmark's territory. |
| 1:26.2 | We see Musk backing the German opposition, calling |
| 1:28.4 | more or less for regime change in Britain. Again, I don't think there's going to be much |
| 1:33.7 | pushback from the Europeans, to be honest. I think they will take the abuse as they gave up on |
| 1:38.2 | defending national interest or self-preservation or even dignity a while ago. |
| 1:42.8 | Perhaps I'm a bit too harsh. |
| 1:47.8 | But I guess my main question is, what will Trump do with Europe? |
| 1:51.1 | What does the relationship look like? |
| 1:54.8 | Is he just want to renegotiate, get a bit more from the Europeans and offer less? Or how do you read this more dismissive attitude, I guess, towards Europeans? |
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